Video from Then & Now
An Introduction to Heidegger: Being and Time
"In Being and Time, Heidegger attempts to answer the question "What is being?" He tries to do this by studying the concept of dasein, a German word that translates to “being there.” He uses it to refer to the human being who is most self-consciously aware of his existence. He then interrogates what "being there," in other words, being self-aware, means." from video introduction